Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yōn-

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Turkic

Notes

The final -r- in Yakut is strange. Perhaps en early contamination with *yüŕ- (“to peel of skin, to skin”), whence also Turkish yüzmek (“to skin, to flay”).

Verb

*yōn-

(transitive) to adze, plane

Derived terms

*yōnt- (“causative form”)
- Oghuz:
  - West Oghuz:
    - Ottoman Turkish: یونتمق (yontmak)
      - Turkish: yontmak (“to adze”)
*yōnga (“wooden chip”)
- Oghuz:
  - West Oghuz:
    - Ottoman Turkish: یونغه (yonga)
      - Turkish: yonga

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: [script needed] (śon-)
Common Turkic: *yōn-

Oghuz:
- West Oghuz:
  - Old Anatolian Turkish:
    - Azerbaijani: yonmaq
    - Ottoman Turkish: یونمق (yonmak)
      - Turkish: yonmak
      - Gagauz: yonmaa
- East Oghuz:
  - Turkmen: ýōnmak
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (yon-)
  - Uzbek: yoʻnmoq
  - Uyghur: [script needed] (yonu-)
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: [script needed] (jun-)
  - Tatar: [script needed] (jun-)
- South Kipchak:
  - Kazakh: жонуу (jonuu, “to whittle”)
- Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
  - Southern Altai: јонор (ǰonor, “to plain, shave, slice”)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (yon-, “to shave, scrape”)
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: һуор (huor)
  - Yakut: суор (suor)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tuvan: чонар (çonar)

References

Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jōn-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 942
Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 206